Pitman High School team notified the West Jersey Football League it wouldn’t be able to field a varsity team in 2017, it was announced Friday.

“They have shared their preliminary plans to rebuild their program and we support their efforts,” the WJFL said in a statement.

The league also said it’s “committed to reschedule games for the nine schools that have Pitman on the 2017 schedule and will ensure all schools impacted by this situation will have the opportunity for a full nine game schedule.”

The Panthers were slated to play Gloucester Catholic, Maple Shade, Schalick, Pleasantville, Woodstown, Wildwood, Middle Township, Gloucester City and Clayton this year.

Josh Friedman; (856) 486-2431; jfriedman2@gannettnj.com

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